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Common Latin Word Used in English

This document defines and provides context for 38 vocabulary words: - It defines words related to judgment, planning, and concern for others. - It also defines words describing ambiguous meanings, confidence, cruelty, greed, drinking, abstinence, gallantry, worthiness, unity, twilight, selection, weakness, guidance, copying, metals, flowing, futility, loquaciousness, poverty, greatness, communication, tirelessness, flavorlessness, introspection, relaxation, meditation, wrongdoing, small amounts, near death, worldliness, inexperience, respect, clarity, obscure origins, preservation, anxiety, probability, uncertainty, silliness, beauty, lack of courage, relationships, rebellious

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Common Latin Word Used in English

This document defines and provides context for 38 vocabulary words: - It defines words related to judgment, planning, and concern for others. - It also defines words describing ambiguous meanings, confidence, cruelty, greed, drinking, abstinence, gallantry, worthiness, unity, twilight, selection, weakness, guidance, copying, metals, flowing, futility, loquaciousness, poverty, greatness, communication, tirelessness, flavorlessness, introspection, relaxation, meditation, wrongdoing, small amounts, near death, worldliness, inexperience, respect, clarity, obscure origins, preservation, anxiety, probability, uncertainty, silliness, beauty, lack of courage, relationships, rebellious

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acumen - ability to make good judgments


2. agenda - list of things to be done
3. altruism - selfless concern for others

1. ambiguous - having a double meaning


2. aplomb (Fr.) - self-confidence
3. atrocity - cruel act
4. avarice - greed
5. bibulous - excessively fond of drinking alcohol
6. celibate - abstaining from sex or marriage
7. chivalrous (Fr.) - gallant
8. condign - worthy, appropriate
9. conglomerate - parts put together to form a unit while remaining
separate identities
10. crepuscular - pertaining to twilight
11. cull - select from a variety of sources
12. debilitate - weaken
13. dirigible - capable of being guided
14. facsimile - exact copy
15. ferrous - made of iron
16. flux - in the process of flowing
17. futile - in vain
18. garrulity - loquaciousness
19. impecunious - poor
20. incalculable - too great to be counted
21. incommunicado (Sp.) - not in communication with others
22. indefatigability - tireless
23.insipid - lacking flavor
24. introspection - looking within at one's mental or emotional state
25. languid - slow, relaxed
26. lucubration - meditation
27. malfeasance (Fr.) - wrongdoing

1. modicum - small amount


2. moribund - near death
3. mundane - wordly as opposed to spiritual
4. naive - exhibiting lack of experience
5. obeisance - respect
6. obvious - clear (from the Latin for "in the way")
7. parvenu - celebrity from obscure origins
8. perpetuate - preserve
9. perturb - make anxious
10. plausible - probable
1. precarious - uncertain
2. puerile - childishly silly
3. pulchritude - beauty
4. pusillanimity - showing a lack of courage
5. rapport - close relationship
6. rapprochement (Fr.) - establishment of a harmonious relationship
7. recalcitrant - obstinate
8. renegade - a rebellious person
9. reprisal - retaliation
10. sacrosanct - very important or holy and not to be messed with
11. simulacrum - image
12. stipend - fixed allowance
13. stultify - make appear foolish, cause to loose enthusiasm
14. succumb - fail to resist
15. taunt (Fr.) - provoke
16. tentative - provisional
17. turpitude - depravity
18. ubiquity - found everywhere

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